{"id":675247,"date":"2026-07-05T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675247\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:02:08","slug":"cells-from-dead-bristol-zoo-project-gorilla-jock-could-bring-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675247\/","title":{"rendered":"Cells from dead Bristol Zoo Project gorilla Jock could bring new life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sperm cells from a 42-year-old gorilla could bring the promise of new life thanks to the work of a wildlife charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jock, a silverback western lowland gorilla who spent the majority of his life at Bristol Zoo in Clifton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yr5n3p8j5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in February<\/a> after his relocation to the zoo&#8217;s new site near Cribbs Causeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following his death, wildlife conservation charity Nature&#8217;s SAFE worked with the Bristol Zoological Society to preserve Jock&#8217;s bodily tissues, testicular tissue, and semen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Although Jock has passed, it is of real comfort to know that, in a sense, part of him lives on in our tanks,&#8221; said Terri Hill, vice chair of the charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sperm cells from a 42-year-old gorilla could bring the promise of new life thanks to the work of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-675247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}